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What are your thoughts on fiber through the city? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After 16 years of living in my city, they will finally have city-wide fiber internet. I’m pretty stoked because the fastest internet I could possibly have is a WISP at 50gbps down and 10gbps up. Now I will finally have gigabit but it’s through the city, and I’m wondering if they will be more strict on illegal content download given a possible VPN leak. I know this is highly subjective but I want to understand all the possibilities what could happen.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's no realistic scenario where the fiber for the street comes to your desktop. Some homelabs have fiber from the street to a switch/router, then more fiber from there to the desktop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Connecting to a switch/router doesn't change anything, that's just how the Internet works. The fiber from the street is almost certainly connected to switches before it gets to your house as well.

If anything would break the "fiber to the desktop" meme, it's the fact that most residential ISP ONTs I'm aware of do not support SFP, which means that you'd have to get copper out of the ONT, then convert it back into fiber. You'd have to get lucky with an ISP that has compatible options.